Chapter 2 Reflection

1. Learning Communities are implemented to help those in the community reach a common goal by learning to learn together. This is especially important for a classroom environment because it helps everyone within the classroom grow. 
2. There are many benefits for utilizing Learning Communities many of which include decreased teacher isolation, increased commitment to the mission, shared responsibility, more powerful learning, and a higher likelihood of fundamental, systematic change. These are are very important skills for every student in every classroom.
3. Learning Communities allows teachers to use other teachers as a resource for success. This also means that teachers must fully support the PBL experience, if they don't fully support the experience then it will be a failure. 
4. These communities help students learn to work with others, give and receive constructive criticism, collaborate with others, hold shared values and beliefs, learn to improve themselves constantly and see themselves as life long learners. 
5. The components for the shared vision in the learning community are the same as for any group working towards the same common goal. They follow the general guide lines of an average group project where every person in the group must work towards the same general goal. They must also communicate properly to each other. This allows students to learn how to do this same type of activity in the real world. 
6. This relates fully to what we are doing in our own project. We all have our own portion to work on to make the work load even, yet we are all working together to collaboratively come up with ideas and make changes to the general plan.